FTEC News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index From 02/14/22

We now have evidence that the shift toward sustainability is leading to a repricing of assets across the board - and believe it has a lot more room to run. US inflation hit new 40-year highs, sending bond yields soaring amid market expectations of more rate hikes. We see the market&#x...

The stock market can get a little crazy sometimes - out of control. The bond market is more in tune with the economy and takes a longer-term approach. The action in the bond market is telling us that there is trouble on the horizon. Credit spreads have increased, and the high yiel...

Stocks and bonds sold off in January as markets repriced for a more aggressive pace of central bank tightening and increased pressures on the global earnings recovery. Tech and other pricey high-growth stocks tend to underperform in periods of rising interest rates. Value returns ...

Companies that can raise prices because they want to, and know the market will bear it, are in the ultimate power position. Companies seek efficiencies as inflation rises, which may include automating payroll and outsourcing human resources. Indispensable goods or services have en...

The goal of the DDM is to quickly and easily utilize available resources of an asset to understand what the intrinsic value of that asset is based on certain market and company expectations. If the required return component of the equation rises without expectations of higher company ...

Taking into account the Fed comments from last week, recently one of our technical analysts forecasted a correct S&P Index price range of $4,348 to $4,261. The market has since corrected to that level and is now bouncing. The analysis of the broad stock market shows signs of i...

Amid the market volatility, growth-oriented technology companies came under extreme selling pressure in January, falling into correction territory - defined as a 10% drop - after weeks of decline across major equity indexes. Expectations of the Fed raising interest rates weighed on te...

College is not cheap, as Iʻm experiencing firsthand at the moment. But one thing that has made the payments a lot more manageable is the fact that I started investing a long time ago, specifically for college, when the kids were wee ones. It doesnʻt take a huge initial investm...

At the end of 2019, had we been told that a two-year pandemic was about to begin, we would have found it impossible to predict the set of returns that followed in subsequent years. Historically, “tightening,” or “over-tightening,” policy was about corrallin...

U.S. asset-purchase program could end by March. BoE surprises markets with rate hike. China moves to counter growth slowdown. For further details see: Fed Speeds Up Tapering Process, Bank Of England Raises Rates